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Aqua Metals opens first AquaRefining center for low-pollution lead-acid battery recycling

Green Car Congress

recently held an open house at its first AquaRefinery at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center (TRIC) in McCarran, Nevada. The modular nature of the solution also offers the potential to locate multiple smaller recycling facilities in areas closer to the source of used LABs, thereby reducing transport costs and supply chain bottlenecks.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

Green Car Congress

Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses, associated charging infrastructure and a back-up generator to maintain bus service in a disaster situation. Napa Valley Transportation Authority.

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E Paper License Plates Now Street-Legal in California

Cars That Think

2022 : The “Kindle” of license plates— Reviver ’s connected, digital RPlate —is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. Switching between multiple special interest plates ; drivers won’t have to commit to supporting, say, Lake Tahoe, at the expense of Yosemite or the California coast.

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At the EV Crossroads

Clean Fleet Report

When this publication began in 2006 commercially available electric vehicles were a novelty; the idea of a mainstream EV was part of a vision of a sustainable transportation system of the future. liter gas engine (28 mpg highway) for a run in the snow up to Lake Tahoe. As far as I was concerned, they were at price parity.

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